Housing with preconditions means more people will cycle through shelters, jails, and the streets, fueling efforts to ...

A program started in Roswell, New Mexico, has gone statewide. Here's how Rehab-2-Rental works, and what's to come.

Healthy Homes Ordinance, many of New Orleans’s “certified habitable” apartments still have leaks and mold. What went wrong?

Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy contends in his book, Together: The Healing Power of Connection in a Sometimes Lonely ...

For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who will be affected by the proposals and projects ...

If you hang out with people who enjoy things like “clean eating,” yearlong getaways, and Marie Kondo coffee table books, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve stepped inside a tiny house. Bear in mind, ...

The U.S. owns more than 650 million acres of public lands, and it has the power to sell or lease limited parcels for affordable housing. But mass disposal of public lands, as some legislators have ...

As cities across the country consider giving tenants the right of first refusal, municipalities must be meticulous in crafting policies that preserve and expand tenants' ability to form housing ...

Pransky was an activist lawyer who fought for and defended both tenants and rent control policies in New Jersey. McKee organized in New York City, founding multiple organizations and helping to defend ...

How an ambiguous legal definition is endangering nonprofits’ control of dozens of affordable housing developments in the final years of their tax credit agreements. For the past five years or so, ...

In a previous Shelterforce blog post, I argued that we cannot give up hope that the market will build middle-income housing. Granted, over the past decade, most new housing has been built in the ...

To know where we’re going, we need to know where we’ve been. We need to take a look back at how promising or ambitious initiatives panned out, whether trends that seemed to be going strong stayed on ...